From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 12/14/2025 9:20 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   > Paul  wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 12/13/2025 11:16 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:   
   >>> On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:27:01 +1000, Daniel70   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> This is my opinion only - based on fighting the Amazon/Google algorithms.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> They are, supposedly, money making entities ... so want to make money   
   >>>> out of YOU!!   
   >>>   
   >>> I'd be interested in knowing how Google guesses my age - I keep   
   >>> getting those ads for meeting younger women.....I don't THINK it's the   
   >>> sites I visit (mostly Google itself, Quora, a national non-profit I'm   
   >>> on the board of and various sites relating to Skyrim and similar games   
   >>   
   >> You could clean your browser occasionally :-)   
   > [...]   
   >> Your male-ness and age are likely neatly encoded in that storage.   
   >>   
   >> The people offering "meet younger women", have bushels of money from   
   >> "romance scams" to finance those adverts, so it does not require that   
   >> they be exactly surgical about who they offer those to.   
   >   
   >   It's rather funny that the (male) 'adult' ads which I get are mainly   
   > - if not exlusively - next to the 'postimages' (https://postimg.cc/...)   
   > pictures which *you* post! :-)   
   >   
   > [,,,]   
   >   
      
   I don't usually see the adverts unfortunately, on my end.   
      
   Maybe at one time I was seeing them, but my browsers sadly seem to   
   "lack working cookies", and that dampens the enthusiasm for   
   "women of Borneo" showing up here.   
      
   Where ever the women are located, it seems they have to be on   
   the other side of the globe somewhere, and their upkeep is   
   expensive (a romance scam is on its way sir).   
      
   Now, I prefer the Nigerian way of doing it, where if I send   
   $1000 right now (for "paperwork"), $17,000,000 will be deposited   
   in my bank account. It seems such an insignificant amount, that   
   $1000, compared to the $17,000,000 in oil money I will be getting,   
   and it keeps the English department at Nigeria University in pencils   
   and notepads.   
      
   *******   
      
   If I changed sites, in the long term will it work out any better ?   
      
   Image serving is always a pain in the ass, to use another site   
   I have to change browsers and then I can't even be sure the picture   
   has been stored on the site. They're not as smooth to operate   
   as Postimage.   
      
   Considering the financial model of the Internet is   
   broken, the evolution of services on the web is never going   
   to improve in any sense. And we can't exactly pay $6 a month   
   to each of 10,000 sites as an operating model for using a computer.   
      
   Look at Tomshardware right now, operating a "second tier" of articles   
   and expecting people to pay for it. The people operating Toms are   
   savvy and always ahead of the curve on this stuff (SEO in particular),   
   and it's a bad sign when Toms stoops to this, because it says it   
   won't be all that long before every site does this.   
      
      Paul   
      
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